U+BC2C "밬" Hangul Syllable Bak Unicode Character
U+BC2C "밬" Hangul Syllable Bak is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "bak" as a single typographic unit. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ᆨ (bieup, serving as a final consonant pronounced as /k/), which together create a closed syllable. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet for efficient text processing and display. In the Korean writing system, 밬 itself is not a common word but can appear in transliterations, technical contexts, or as a component in more complex lexical formations, reflecting the systematic nature of Hangul's orthographic representation of spoken Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC2C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bak |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "바" U+BC14 Hangul Syllable Ba "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc2c |